Brazilian

Cuscuz Nordestino com Ovo (Northeastern Couscous with Egg)

Name: Cuscuz Nordestino com Ovo (Northeastern Couscous with Egg)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 2 cups cornmeal; 1/4 onion; 1 tomato; 2 eggs; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 3/4 tsp salt

Rafael @rafael_sp09

Cuscuz Nordestino com Ovo (Northeastern Couscous with Egg) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Medium Eggetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups cornmeal
1/4 onion
1 tomato
2 eggs
2 tbsp cooking oil
3/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Moisten the cornmeal with a little salted water until it holds together loosely without being wet.
Saute the diced onion and tomato in the oil 3 minutes and stir half of it through the cornmeal.
Pack the cornmeal into a lightly oiled mold or heatproof bowl set over simmering water and steam, covered, 15 minutes until firm.
Fry the eggs in the remaining onion and tomato mixture until the whites are set.
Unmold the couscous, slice, and serve warm topped with the fried eggs.

Watch how to cook Cuscuz Nordestino com Ovo (Northeastern Couscous with Egg)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

CUSCUZ NORDESTINO FOFINHO: TRADICIONAL, FÁCIL E DELICIOSO! - Wilza Leonel Play the video

Serve it with

A Brazilian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cuscuz Nordestino com Ovo (Northeastern Couscous with Egg), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something cool and fresh
- Prato de Frutas (Breakfast Fruit Plate)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cuscuz Nordestino com Ovo (Northeastern Couscous with Egg) carries eggs. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Cuscuz Nordestino com Ovo (Northeastern Couscous with Egg)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole)
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 420 kcal
Protein: 10 g
Carbs: 66 g
Fat: 13 g
Fiber: 6 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 620 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Cuscuz Nordestino com Ovo (Northeastern Couscous with Egg) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.